Resilient Wednesday Weekly Memo

May is Mental Health Month.  We usually focus on mental illness when talking about psychological well-being and that is important as upwards of 15% of the population experience severe problems with mental illness. For the rest of us, it is far better to focus on how we can maintain and even strengthen our emotional health. […]

It’s time for a little self-congratulation on how we’ve handled this Pandemic.  It has been just over 6 weeks since everything changed and our nation went into a state of shutdown and so did we. Since that time, we’ve mastered working from home, playing Pictionary with family members who live far and wide, learned to

Much like our need to be able to do testing for the virus and antibodies, we also need to be able to assess where we and our organizations are in the phases of this pandemic and our plans for returning to work. During this first phase, which I referred to as “Getting Settled,” we moved

I’ve done nearly a dozen webinars these past three weeks speaking to global audiences about how we can strengthen our resilience in the face of this pandemic. In all these sessions, I’ve emphasized the inherent biological nature of resilience and how it is hard-wired into us. Much as gravity keeps us tethered to the earth

I talked with 2 CEO’s this past week who had two different approaches to how they were managing their teams during this Corona Virus Pandemic. One leader, who heads a global manufacturing company shared with me that being in the center of the storm was very calming for him. While he was concerned for the

Covid-19 is all the rage and we’re all pretty much holed up at home doing what we can to get work done and minimize contact with potential sources. They just announced the first 2 cases in Pittsburgh (on the weekend) and now that testing is ramping up, we’ll soon have a better idea of the

A recent Wall Street Journal article discussed how employers are concerned about their employee happiness and are using all types of technology to evaluate and respond to the level of joy that exists in the workplace. The idea is that happier employees are more productive and, perhaps more importantly, will tend to stay at the